The Northern Lights have given a spectacular light show display in various parts of the UK tonight. The lights are generally only visible in the north but onlookers have seen them as far south as Gloucestershire, South Wales and Norfolk.

One lucky videographer managed to capture not one but two rare sights in the skies over Scotland recently — noctilucent, or night-shining, clouds alongside the northern lights. A spectacular display indeed.

Early yesterday morning NASA released details of an observed solar phenomenon, an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection with the potential to disrupt satellites and communications over the next one to three days.

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The Internet can be a useful tool for bringing people closer to nature from the comfort of their computer screen, wherever that computer monitor might be perched. Now a web cam will stream video of the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) from Yellowknife.

Richard Branson’s upcoming project, the New Mexico Virgin Galactic Spaceport, will be completed by 2010 but already the billionaire is planning to send commercial flights into the heart of the Aurora Borealis very soon.

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Photos taken of the northern lights above the AuroraMax Observatory in Yellowknife, Canada

Via Canada Space Agency Twitter feed

Videographer Maciej Winiarczyk was lucky to capture two unusual phenomena at once in Scotland in early August. The Aurora Borealis, combined with noctilucent clouds.

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Videographer Maciej Winiarczyk was lucky to capture two unusual phenomena at once in Scotland in early August. The Aurora Borealis, combined with noctilucent clouds.

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A coronal mass ejection hit Earth's magnetic field on Oct. 8, 2012 sparking a dramatic display of Northern Lights which subsided 3 days later. The Aurora appears to be casting rays of green sunlight through the clouds. Hugo Løhre photographed the auroras over Lekangsund, Norway, on Oct. 10, 2012.

NASA Images - courtesy of Hugo Løhre

Photos taken of the northern lights above the AuroraMax Observatory in Yellowknife, Canada

Via Canada Space Agency Twitter feed

Photos taken of the northern lights above the AuroraMax Observatory in Yellowknife, Canada

Via Canada Space Agency Twitter feed

Videographer Maciej Winiarczyk was lucky to capture two unusual phenomena at once in Scotland in early August. The Aurora Borealis, combined with noctilucent clouds.

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Photos taken of the northern lights above the AuroraMax Observatory in Yellowknife, Canada

Via Canada Space Agency Twitter feed

A photograph of the Aurora Borealis seen in 2008.

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Photos taken of the northern lights above the AuroraMax Observatory in Yellowknife, Canada

Via Canada Space Agency Twitter feed

A view of the Northern Lights

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Videographer Maciej Winiarczyk was lucky to capture two unusual phenomena at once in Scotland in early August. The Aurora Borealis, combined with noctilucent clouds.

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A sunspot viewed in close-up in ultra-violet light, taken by NASA's TRACE spacecraft.